Picking the Best Lottery Numbers

Strategy Book

Below are free lotto tips to help you play the game smarter and win the lottery, taken from Gail Howard's lotto book,
Lottery Master Guide. This is just a sample, and the book
explains all of Gail Howard's successful methods of number selection
in great detail with examples of patterns shown throughout. It is a great starting place for any lotto player.

Strategy Software

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GAIL HOWARD'S FREE STRATEGIES TO SHOW YOU HOW TO WIN Pennsylvania Treasure Hunt

Lottery numbers are randomly drawn. However, randomly drawn numbers form patterns
that can be tracked and used to our advantage. Having carefully analyzed all the
drawings in past lotto results of more than 190 different lotto games worldwide, with
histories going back as far as 1955, Gail Howard has verified the following incredibly
simple rule:

That which is MOST POSSIBLE happens MOST OFTEN.
That which is LEAST POSSIBLE happens LEAST OFTEN.

The key to Gail Howard's successful lotto number selection methods is playing
the probabilities. If you play a pattern that occurs only five
percent of the time, you can expect that pattern to lose 95
percent of the time, giving you no chance to win 95 percent of
the time. So, don't buck the probabilities.

How to WIN Pennsylvania Treasure Hunt Lotto

ODD-EVEN LOTTO NUMBER TIPS

When you select your Pennsylvania Lotto numbers, try to have a relatively even mix of odd and
even numbers. All odd numbers or all even numbers are rarely drawn, occurring less than
3 percent of the time. The best mix is to have 3/2 or 2/3 which means three odd and
two even, or two odd and three even. One of these two patterns will occur in
67 percent of the drawings.

HIGH-LOW LOTTO NUMBER TIPS

Winning numbers are usually spread across the entire number field. If we take a
number field and cut it in half, we have the low half and the high half. In
30-number game like Pennsylvania Treasure Hunt, numbers 1 to 15 would be in the low half, and numbers 16 to 30
would be in the high half. All high numbers or all low numbers are rarely drawn, occurring
only 3 percent of the time. The best mix is to have 3/2 or 2/3 which means three
high and two low, or two high and three low. One of these two patterns will occur in 68 percent of the drawings.

LOTTERY NUMBER GROUP STRATEGIES

Look at a list of past winning numbers from Pennsylvania Treasure Hunt lotto results, and you'll see,
more often than not, that one or more of the number groups is not represented. For
example, in the combination 5-8-14-17-31, there are no 20's. Tracking and studying
Number Groups can help you decide which group to omit and which group to give extra heavy play.

LOTTO NUMBER SUM ADVICE - PLAY A BALANCED GAME®

After you choose five numbers you want to play, add them together and make sure
that the sum of the five numbers adds up to somewhere between 60 and 100. Sums that
fall within that range will account for over 70 percent of all lottery jackpots won.

REPEAT HITS LOTTERY TIPS

In Pennsylvania Treasure Hunt lotto game, on average, one lottery number will be a repeat hit from
the last drawing every other drawing or 62 percent of the time.

HOT NUMBER LOTTERY SECRETS

Numbers that have been out (losers) for four games or less account for about half of
the winning numbers. Losing numbers
that have been out for six games or less
account for about two-thirds of all the winning numbers. Numbers out ten games or
less account for 86 percent of the winning numbers. This tells us that hot numbers are
more likely to hit, but don't forget to include at least one long shot in your
group of 5.

COLD NUMBER LOTTERY SECRETS

It is difficult to know when a cold number will end a long losing streak. If you play a
number every drawing because you think it is due, you could be chasing it
for many months. (Number 45 in New York Lotto sat out 100 drawings before it
finally hit.) Although, when a number has been out for 70 games or so, it might be
worth chasing.

Lottery Pools and Lottery Syndicates

POOL YOUR WAY TO LOTTO RICHES

Several of the
107 Lotto jackpots won with Gail Howard's lottery systems
were won by groups of people
who pooled their money. Sharing the ticket cost with others stretches your Lotto
budget. By playing with a group, you can afford to buy more lottery
tickets—and play larger wheeling systems—than you could (or should) by
yourself. Draw up an agreement and have the members of your pool sign it.

How to Get Lucky in Lotto

CASH IN ON THE LUCK OF OTHERS

When you form a Lotto pool, your group is also pooling its aggregate luck. A
lotto jackpot could happen because of the luck just one member brings to your pool.
Select your partners carefully. Share your luck with winners, not losers. Avoid
negative people. Not only are they unlucky, but they dampen enthusiasm and drain
energy from others. You want to enhance your own luck, not dilute its strength. One
quick way to tell winners from losers is simply to ask them: "Do you think you
are a lucky person?" Many people quickly admit, "I'm unlucky. I never win
anything." They won't bring good luck to your group either.

CASH IN ON A POSITIVE ATTITUDE

No one should play games of chance out of desperation because they need the
winnings. The needy have a greater fear of losing the hard-earned money they gamble
with. It is just one of life's dirty tricks that the very fear of losing blocks the
winning forces. Thoughts are charged with energy, especially when triggered by
emotion. Fear attracts exactly that which one fears. A strong desire for a goal
that is charged with positive energy, attracts a positive response, especially when
every effort is made to attain that goal.

Lottery Wheels

USE BALANCED WHEEL® SYSTEMS

Balanced Wheeling® Systems allow you to bet a large group of numbers (more than 5), play scientific combinations of that group of numbers, and get a specific minimum win guarantee.
Balanced Wheels® force all the winning numbers that are in your group to come together to give you at least one prize if some or all of the winning numbers are in your chosen group.

It's true that the more numbers you wheel, the easier it is to trap the winning
numbers in your chosen group. But to get the most leverage for your money, the optimum
number of numbers to wheel is not more than four or five numbers over HALF the numbers
in your game. For Pennsylvania Treasure Hunt, that means you should wheel less than about 20 of the 30 total numbers.
Otherwise, you'll be spending MORE money chasing a SMALLER guaranteed
prize. You benefit more by wheeling a carefully selected group of lotto numbers.

THE BEST WAY TO WHEEL ALL THE LOTTO NUMBERS IN YOUR GAME

Any one wheeling
system that covers ALL the numbers in the game is too spread out, making the win
guarantee not worth the wager. There are smart ways to wheel all the numbers in
the game by using Trap-by-Overlap and other wheeling strategies covered on pages
137 to 142 in Gail Howard's lotto book, Lottery Master Guide.

Most of Gail Howard's lottery winners used a Balanced Wheel®
in addition to her Smart Luck® number
selection methods. You can use a FREE lotto interactive Balanced Wheeling System that won
multiple lottery jackpots. Read about Gail Howard's lottery winners,
too. And when you win a jackpot with my lottery systems, tell me about it so I can
add you to my growing list of lotto winners. If you don't want your name publicized,
Gail will honor that.

Save Money by Knowing Lotto Numbers to Avoid

Lotto players who select their lottery numbers thoughtlessly or foolishly are destined to lose even before the drawing takes place.
By knowing which number combinations and patterns to avoid, you'll have an advantage over such players—and save money, too.

AVOID NUMBER COMBINATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN DRAWN BEFORE

Many players like to bet the numbers that have won someone else a big jackpot, and
by doing so, they are almost guaranteed NOT to win one themselves. In PA Treasure Hunt,
with seven drawings a week, a set of five numbers has a chance of being drawn once
every 390 years. This should also answer the question Gail Howard is so often asked,
"Shouldn't I keep playing the same set of numbers every week because they are due
to hit sometime?"

AVOID BETTING ONE LOTTO NUMBER GROUP

Never choose all five numbers from one number group, such as all single digits, or
all teens, or all 20's, etc. All five winning numbers drawn from one group is
highly unlikely, although it is more likely in a game with only thirty numbers than in
games with higher number fields.

AVOID BETTING FIVE CONSECUTIVE NUMBERS

Even four consecutive numbers is a very rare occurrence that, in most Lotto games,
has never happened once.

AVOID THE COMBINATION 1-2-3-4-5

The most popular set of numbers most often played is: 1-2-3-4-5. Thousands of
tickets are bought with this combination every drawing. The selection
is too far out of balance to come up in a random drawing.

AVOID NUMBER MULTIPLES

Other popular combinations that get heavy play are the number multiples, especially
5-10-15-20-25 and 7-14-21-28-35.

AVOID PATTERN BETTING

Pattern betting is an even more popular method of marking bet slips. Patterns of
numbers marked in a row to make a straight line, either across the bet slip
vertically or diagonally get heavy play—which means sharing the prize with
others if the numbers are drawn as winners. Other designs such as patterns of
initials or numbers or crosses also get heavy play.

AVOID ALL SAME LAST DIGITS

Many people like to play same last digits, such as 3-13-23-33, or all digits that
end in seven, or some other favorite lucky lottery number. Even four same last digits occur
in less than two-tenths of one percent of all drawings. Winning sets of numbers
with no more than one repeated last digit represent nearly 90 percent of all
drawings.

NIX LOTTO QUICK PICKS

Quick Picks are used by lazy people who want to be in the action without putting
any effort into learning how to win the lottery. When you read articles about
lotto jackpot winners, it appears
as though they all used either Quick Picks, birth dates, or their children's ages.
The vast majority of people do play that way. If the majority of tickets sold are
Quick Picks, then it makes sense that the majority of jackpots won should be won
with Quick Picks. However, when you see the actual statistics, as Gail Howard did, you'll find that you have
a better chance of winning by picking numbers randomly out of a hat than by using
Quick Picks.

In Lotto, the Trend is Your Friend

The shortest, easiest way to search for Lotto numbers that have
the greatest probability of winning is to track the trends. Gail Howard's Smart Luck strategies show you how to understand and use historical data.
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